Every web designer has to deal with colour. You spend hours working up colour schemes for your website design and then having to make sure you have all the correct values to enter into the code. To make the tricky subject of colour a little easier for you, here are my top five colour tools for web designers. I use these free web apps when creating a mock-up and developing a website.
Colour tools help enormously. From colour scheme designers to colour converters, using colour tools as part of … [Read more...]

Create data tables for your posts and pages using WordPress
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FREE DOWNLOADABLE DATA TABLE FILES - fully commented, HTML and CSS files to help you create simple data tables for your WordPress webpages. Feel free to modify this template for your personal or commercial projects.
As with everything in life there are different ways of doing things. I am going to share with you how I insert tables into my blog posts in WordPress. Whenever you need your data to appear … [Read more...]

Use CSS3 to create drop shadow effects
One of the most popular features of CSS3 is the drop shadow properties. The term 'drop shadow' is not a CSS3 property instead we use two separate properties known as text-shadow and box-shadow. Text-shadow is of course for text only; box-shadow is for any div or box element that requires a drop shadow.
Text-shadow can help lift the text from the page so that the text can be read more easily. It is possible to use different colours for text-shadow … [Read more...]

Transform your images and shapes using CSS3
2D Transforms are becoming more popular as web designers and developers become more daring in their use of CSS3. 2D Transforms offer us the means of using CSS to rotate, scale, skew and move elements whether for SEO or aesthetic reasons. With clean code, you may use these selectors to style a webpage making it attractive to both the user and search engines.
You may use 2D transforms to move, turn, spin, stretch and scale elements on a webpage. … [Read more...]

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FREE DOWNLOADABLE FAQ - fully commented, 10-question FAQ using named anchors for you to download and use in any of your projects. Feel free to modify this free template for your personal or commercial projects.
Hyperlinks are the backbone of the internet. Without hyperlinks there would be no web. There are different types of hyperlinks - internal links and external links; and also hyperlinks within webpages called named anchors. Named anchors are links to a specific part of … [Read more...]